Approves Asia Supply Route, Ignores US Route
H/T Eric Worrall and Breitbart – Obama’s inability to make a decision on Keystone has finally yielded a result – Canada has made the decision for him.
Breitbart reports Canada has just approved the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project – a major pipeline to ship Canadian oil to Asia.
The Canadian oil will still be burnt – in Asia, instead of America.
All the jobs and energy security which Canadian oil could have delivered to America, will instead be delivered to Asia.
Rather than purchasing crude from a friendly and allied neighbor, the United States will most likely need to continue its reliance upon hostile sources like Venezuela. Energy analysts had hoped that construction of Keystone could have replaced almost half of the current U.S. daily crude purchases from that volatile, anti-American dictatorship, depriving Venezuela of the resources it relies upon to stay in power and fund its Cuban allies.
You can’t say Canada didn’t give America a chance – they waited years for the American administration to come to their senses. But in the end, they couldn’t wait any longer, and have put the interests of Canadians first.
Below is a helpful timeline of Keystone events, courtesy of Al Jazeera.
At Crosspatch. Where were you when Bush started a war that cost us trillions? How you guys can compare a lost pipeline to 10 years of war is beyond me.
Someone mentioned the “TransMountain Pipeline Expansion Project” or such.
Be careful with terminology, company vs project names, changing routes, and changing partnerships.
I think the Northern Gateway project is by a consortium of pipeline company(s) and oil companies, to build a new oil pipeline from AB to the NE coast of BC. An pipeline company called “Enbridge” is leading.
Transmountain is an existing pipeline owned by Kinder Morgan, running across southern BC, which supplies a refinery and an oil tanker loading terminal near Vancouver BC. as well as refineries in NW WA state. The plan is to twin/enlarge it (depending on portion – see http://www.transmountain.com/proposed-pipeline-corridor), to increase the volume shipped by tanker.
The Keystone pipeline system is owned by TransCanada Corporation, a pipeline company. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransCanada_Corporation (ConocoPhillips is no longer involved).
And for further confusion, there are at least two proposed natural gas pipeline projects to the north coast of BC. Those would take natural gas from NE BC, tapping into pipeline(s) that already run from NE BC past Prince George to the lower mainland of BC and onward to the US.
(Terminus of the various oil and gas pipelines are Kitimat (which is at the end of an inlet thus protected) and Prince Rupert (which already has a cargo port). Both already have natural gas supply by pipeline, for local consumption, the main line of that supply may have been twinned.)
Many of the existing pipelines go back several decades – circa 1963 I worked on the NG pipeline from NE BC., the TransMountain oil pipeline may date to 1969.
The original business plan was to transship to Texas the ship out of the country. As to jobe the original PR announcement was 20K jobs but the reality the refinery was 100% staffed *(the only turn is by death of workers) temporary jobs < 1000K permanent new jobs much much less.
As others have pointed out the two projects are not related at all.
Imagine that the Canadian government was actually using the approval of one project as a bargaining chip for the other. Enbridge would have a case against the government for all the preliminary fees it’s paid and applications it’s submitted – this would be a huge liability for the government in the tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars. There’s also the public embarrassment of the government caused by such unethical behaviour.
davidgmills says: [ “…” ]
Are your arguments so tired that you have to repeat the Bush canard?
I clearly recall Hillary, Kerry, Bill, and many other Democrats enthusiastically promoting the Iraq war. Why did you leave them out? Leftist politics? Very few politicians refused to support the war. In retrospect it was a mistake. People and countries sometimes make mistakes. Why are we still in Afghanistan? That is 100% Obama at this point. Compared with Obama, Bush is outstanding. Obama is either completely incompetent, or he is maliciously destroying the country. At this point I am not sure which. Maybe both.
GW Bush is a class act. He could be constantly unloading on Obama [like Obama does on him]. Instead, he has made only one comment about Obama since leaving office: “He deserves my silence.”
Compared with GW Bush, Obama has no class at all. He’s an empty suit with not a drop of slave blood, who failed upward as America’s act of contrition for slavery. The war was a mistake. Electing Obama was a much worse mistake. Especially the second time.
Venezual, according to the CIA factbook – has elections.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ve.html
Probably more transparent that the “black box” elections conducted in the U.S. dictatorship.
I live under the oppressive boot of the U.S.. I don’t like it. I want it to end.
Get your military bases out of my country, now. Thanks.
So how come the Canadian government has not announced this? Nor has the company that will the new pipeline has announced this? ALL LIES!!!
ConfusedPhoton says:
June 29, 2014 at 12:33 am
The Greens will only be happy when they have driven the economy back into medieval times.
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The “Greens” will never be happy. Never have been. Never will be. That’s why it’s useless to try to placate them. It’s better to ignore them.
CAPP Crude Oil Pipeline & Refinery Map
http://www.capp.ca/canadaIndustry/oil/Pages/PipelineMap.aspx
Frank – what are you talking about? It was ALL OVER THE NEWS in Canada last week.
Are you going to build a pipeline to Asia???
“The oil was never going to be used here anyway. We are already sending away our own fracking juice. Fine with me. Petrol prices remain the domain of the oil mafia.” Try learning a few minimal basic facts. The oil is already being used here. However it is being shipped by rail on Warren Buffet’s trains. And he is profitting $5 per bbl. on it. Keystone just takes it off his trains.
Breathless stupidity because America would have burned that oil more cleanly than smog ridden China would.
How did that help you stupid democrats?
In opposing economic growth and growth of energy infrastructure the greens are trying to erect a barbed wire fence around the human race.
They dont get it that economic growth reduces population growth eventually to below replacement and leads a cleaner environment through better technology.
Its driven by subconscious racist anxiety about countries that our parents taught us were inhabited by grass-skirted savages achieving economic and technical parity with a disappearing “west”.
Obama delende est.
Plug? I didn’t read about a plug being pulled, just that there was a second pipeline being built. They’ll probably still push for and use XL if it does get built. And the sourthern XL portion is already done.
Frank;
The Canadian government approved Enbridge Inc. (ENB)’s Northern Gateway pipeline, eliminating the final major regulatory obstacle for the conduit that would move Alberta oil to the Pacific coast for shipment to Asia.
The approval of the C$6.5 billion ($6 billion) project by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s cabinet is subject to Enbridge satisfying the 209 conditions placed on the proposal by a regulatory review panel in December, Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford said in a statement today from Ottawa.
Bloomberg, June 18th, 2014
Breitbart? Oh please. Their article vastly overstated Canada’s action, which is far from final.
David Archibald
Tight Oil
http://americanthinker.com/2014/06/reversal_of_fortune.html
David Ball aid on June 29, 2014, 12:09 pm
“I won’t say what I think of the current US administration. But it is quaint that the mentally handicapped can reach such lofty positions of power in America.”
David, we Canadians live in a glass house on this issue. We should not mock our American friends regarding the intellect of their President.
Our current Prime Minister Stephen Harper is a notable exception – he is clearly intelligent and capable. Nevertheless he is behind in the polls, as Canadian apparently tire of government competence and economic stability – our economy is by far the strongest in the G8.
Need I remind you of recent Canadian Liberal Prime Ministers like Jean Chretien, and others who squandered Canada’s future for narrow political and personal gain? Remember the many Chretien scandals – AdScam, Shawinigate, etc etc that diverted huge sums of public money into Liberal pockets?
Provincially, remember Liberal Premier Doltan McGuinty who wrecked Ontario’s manufacturing economy by adopting nonsensical green energy policies that drove up energy prices?
Or future hopefuls like Liberal Justin Trudeau, who has his mother’s looks AND his mother’s brains? Justin is clearly an intellectual lightweight who appeals to other such imbeciles, but he leads in the polls and may become our next PM.
I worry for our children.
Canada is already one of our biggest sources of oil imports. Because CAnada has no other customers other than our midwest refiners we can demand a 30% discount when buying oil from Canada The Keystone was designed so that Canada would have access to the world market and no longer have to accept selling only to the USA. Why would anyone be in favor of a pipeline to export North American oil to the rest of the world? Posters better take a google at where our oil currently comes from apparently they have not already done so
Er, folks, the oil in the proposed Keystone pipeline was never meant for US-consumption. Yes, our refineries in NE and TX would get some business but the oil was and is slated for export.
john@6:36AM
Your logic does not work. US currently imports oil at higher than Canada crude prices. Why would refiners export lower priced Canadian oil to buy higher priced imported oil?
Makes no sense unless you assume the refiners are run by a gov’t agency?
PS US oil comes from – in order – US sources, Canada, and then Venezuela and other similar odious locations.
Obama will approve Keystone after the mid-term elections. He can’t afford to before as pipeline opponents are some of the Democratic Party’s hardest workers. After the election, when the useful idiots cease to be useful, he will approve it. I’m sure he’s let the Canadian government know what he plans.